mmagin

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1. 391.▲
   by mmagin 12y ago

   Is there any reason to trust closed-source FPGA synthesis and place and route tools any more than an Intel CPU?
2. 392.▲
   by mmagin 12y ago

   I hear the OpenCores website is nearly unmaintained. Someone went and made a github clone of all the code: https://github.com/freecores
3. 393.▲
   by mmagin 12y ago

   Ironically, I was just learning this morning how it's done on the PDP-8, which has a disturbingly similar flavor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-8#Subroutines
4. 394.▲
   by mmagin 12y ago

   This. They're just gathering more evidence by getting you to hand them a hard drive with this on it.
5. 395.▲
   by mmagin 12y ago

   I experienced animated GIF captchas with Yahoo's login process. Not sure if that was better or worse than reCaptcha.
6. 396.▲
   by mmagin 12y ago

   Privacy concerns are one of the reasons I went for the Garmin Vivofit -- it only powers up the radio when you activate sync by holding the button (necessary to achieve the one year battery life).
7. 397.▲
   by mmagin 12y ago

   This is a lot of what bothers me about docker too. It's worrisome that so many people are using it with unsigned third-party images.
8. 398.▲
   by mmagin 12y ago

   While your frustration is understandable, when approaching a new open source project, it seems like it might help to be a bit more tactful and understanding.
9. 399.▲
   by mmagin 12y ago

   The Flash browser plugin is NOT available on current versions of Android. There is some Flash available for Adobe AIR apps, but that's something different.
10. 400.▲
    by mmagin 12y ago

    And despite the size, it's so much faster than it used to be! Good work.
11. 401.▲
    by mmagin 12y ago

    I am a former Archive employee. I can't speak to their current infrastructure (though more of it is open source now - http://archive-access.sourceforge.net/projects/wayback/ ), but as far as the wayback mach
12. 402.▲
    by mmagin 13y ago

    I think it would also be reasonable to place some blame on telephone company monopolies/duopolies who are in a comfortable, profitable place and resistant to change.
13. 403.▲
    by mmagin 13y ago

    Unfortunately, a lot of the Prop 65 warning labels don't even say what particular substance they're warning you about. And I've even seen such stickers on pieces of solid wood, warning the consumer because wood dust is a _su
14. 404.▲
    by mmagin 13y ago

    Generally you put a honing compound on the blades and turn the blades backwards to sharpen it. It's some work, but it's pretty easy. e.g. http://www.amazon.com/American-Lawn-Mower-SK-1-Sharpening/dp...
15. 405.▲
    by mmagin 13y ago

    Can you please explain how I should use this to: 1) Sync the 1Password iPhone app with the desktop app 2) Share cute cat photos with my wife (who uses Windows, and who is not computer-clueless, but is rather commandline-adverse.)
16. 406.▲
    by mmagin 13y ago

    Doesn't even touch on my personal pet peeve, people who don't use list and dict literals. I assume they're former Java programmers who got ahold of enough python knowledge to be dangerous. e.g: x = dict() x['a&#x
17. 407.▲
    by mmagin 13y ago

    "unhackable linux"? What?
18. 408.▲
    by mmagin 13y ago

    Well, good for them, but I hope it doesn't ruin the product the same way Hershey's ruined Scharffen Berger chocolate.
19. 409.▲
    by mmagin 13y ago

    This reminds me a lot of LinkedIn's clever scheme to MITM your IMAP traffic: http://blog.linkedin.com/2013/10/23/announcing-linkedin-intr...
20. 410.▲
    by mmagin 13y ago

    What made me hate upstart was that it still is willing to get the default runlevel from /etc/inittab, but it doesn't bother to emit warnings to the user that the rest of /etc/inittab is completely ignored, at least
21. 411.▲
    by mmagin 13y ago

    It's been suggested that the sweetening of acidic wine using lead vessels was a far greater toxicity risk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead(II)_acetate#Sweetener
22. 412.▲
    by mmagin 13y ago

    You shouldn't assume the traffic leaving the VPN endpoint is any safer.
23. 413.▲
    by mmagin 13y ago

    When I first heard about this patent, the first thing I thought of was UMSDOS -- but this seems to be something else with the Minix filesystem.
24. 414.▲
    by mmagin 13y ago

    Today they seem to assume knowing how to type and use a word processor is equivalent.
25. 415.▲
    by mmagin 13y ago

    This is making me recall memories of doing SLIP via Slirp: http://slirp.sourceforge.net
26. 416.▲
    by mmagin 13y ago

    "TSA Pre✓™" Are government agencies actually given trademark protection under the law?
27. 417.▲
    by mmagin 13y ago

    You laugh, but I've heard of people making the same with Crisco.
28. 418.▲
    by mmagin 13y ago

    It seems similar to how you generally don't see people whipping out an iPad in the middle of dinner. It's easier to seem not-rude while using a phone, because it's smaller.
29. 419.▲
    by mmagin 13y ago

    More likely streaming music services have various agreements which only allow them to operate in select countries. I recall that when I was visiting Canada in 2010, I had to proxy my traffic back to the US to use Pandora.
30. 420.▲
    by mmagin 13y ago

    The PRC government doesn't like porn. Here's an article that touches on that: http://www.dailylife.com.au/news-and-views/news-features/a-l...